Healthy Mare Foaling Service

Checking a pregnant mare every hour, day and night, is an enormous challenge. New Bolton Center's new Healthy Mare Foaling Service provides a high level of care to mares around the clock at our hospital as they approach their due date.

Mares at risk for having foals with neonatal isoerythrolysis, a potentially life-threatening condition in which the mare’s antibodies, delivered in colostrum, attack and destroy her foal’s red blood cells. Additional costs associated with management of these mares and foals, and administration of donor colostrum, will be discussed in detail.

Mares and foals will be discharged 48-72 hours post-foaling under the standard option.

Other discharge options include:

The owner requests additional board beyond that period.

The owner requests that the mare and foal be transferred to New Bolton Center’s Hofmann Center for reproduction for additional post-foaling and re-breeding care. There is no cost for transportation to the Hofmann Center.

Clinicians on the case identify patient conditions that require additional veterinary care, and discuss treatment options with the owner.